It's Tony here from the Aikido Health Centre with your last Harmony ezine of 2013. It offers you my top tips and insights on Aikido and Health.

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In this issue we spotlight how Sound Vibrations balance your mind, body, and spirit - see below. Next year, in 2014 we'll offer you the #1 top tip for you to finally experience glowing health - stay tuned!

We Wish You a Merry Xmas and a...Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year!

POWERFUL SOUND VIBRATIONS

Recently I was wondering what article I could offer you for the end of 2013. I thought it would be a good idea to discuss a subject that has the power to launch you forward into 2014 in a positive way.

I urge you to take the time to tune in to sound vibrations...

The essence of life itself!

In an ideal world we would all be in harmony and balance, but due to the constant bombardment of factors like stress, negative energy, pollution, etc. we are often being pulled 'out of tune'

resulting in dis-ease.

In an ideal world, we would detect and clear our imbalances before they were able to manifest into physical illness. However, so often this is not the case, as we often keep going until forced to take notice, in which case, it may take longer to clear the existing blockage.

If you are repeatedly exposed to negative energy via a poor diet, unhappy relationships, environmental and chemical stresses, etc. it can literally pull your body out of tune.

Sometimes the body gets so used to being out of tune, it forgets the ideal energy blueprint it used to enjoy - and adopts a less healthy blueprint which eventually results in imbalance, illness and dis-ease.

Just as there is an energy blueprint for the organs, bones, etc, there is also one for the chakra system. The chakras work as little pump houses to transfer energy throughout the body via channels called meridians.

The chakras take subtle energy to the vital organs, bones, and skin, feeding the body with life-force, prana, chi, ki etc. A fully functioning chakra allows energy to flow through your body unhindered, resulting in health and harmony of mind, body & spirit.

WHY IS SOUND SO GOOD FOR HEALING

Sound releases imbalances, not only on a physical, but also an emotional and spiritual level. Sound is a powerful, primitive force. For centuries, healers have intuitively used the therapeutic powers of sound.

Many tools have been used since the beginning of time to create music, and to aid healing - gongs, Tibetan bowls, didgeridoos, rattles and drums. More modern sound therapy tools are tuning forks, chimes, resonator plates, sound discs, and sound tables. All play an important role in healing.

Modern science has shown that in the human body, auditory nerves are linked to our sense of proportion and balance, and have the power to shift our energy to the "center", bringing about a feeling of connection.

With intuitive wisdom, healers and shamans of many cultures correctly sensed that listening to vibrational sound helps us access these auditory nerves in a way which may increase receptivity to healing energy.
They knew sounds and music could induce trance states to help identify illness, and even open gateways for new healing energy to flow through.

Great musicians of all time have known of and written about the nature of sound and its power to bring the listener to a divine state.

SOUND VIBRATIONS IN MUSIC THERAPY

To the public, music therapy is generally an unknown field. But music holds a prominent position in our society and educational systems as a performing, entertaining art.
Historically, music has been a primary tool for spiritual and physical alignment, used at political and social gatherings, as well as for family, civic, or educational ceremonies.

Truly religious music awakens and stimulates the spiritual seeds that exist in every one of us, waiting to come to life. It lifts us above the level of everyday consciousness, up into those higher realms where light, love and joy reign.
The healing properties of music were well known by the ancient civilizations, and they deliberately used it for such purpose.

Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythms that exercised healing to human actions and passions. He applied the same means to the curing of diseases of both body and mind.

Plato accorded just as much importance to music as a powerful means of mental therapy and education. Aristotle mentions among the various functions of music that of emotional healing.

Music therapy helps clients achieve a state of deep relaxation, develop self-awareness and creativity, improve learning, clarify personal values, and cope with a variety of dysfunctions.

Music helps you achieve the relaxation response by removing your inner restlessness and quieting ceaseless thinking. It can be used as a healing ritual to stop your mind from running away and enable thinking to become still so that you can achieve inner quietness and relaxation.

Tony Wilden is an Aikido Instructor and qualified in several Healing Arts. He has a deep interest in spiritual matters, optimum health, environmental issues, and the creation of harmony between people and nature. Tony is on a path to wisdom, freedom and power and shares his insights on aikido, health, universal principles, ancient knowledge and master strategies.

Please Note

The information provided in the Harmony ezine is for educational purposes and not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any dis-ease. It should not replace the advice of your health advisor or doctor.